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Patients can carry records on secure smartcard

Patients in London can now have their medical histories handy wherever they are, by uploading them onto a new USB
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BT hits 18,000 N3 connections ahead of schedule

BT has announced that it has successfully reached the 18,000 N3 broadband connections across the NHS, hitting its milestone two months ahead of
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New Eclipse MIS will support major research

A new Eclipse maternity information system delivered by Huntleigh Healthcare has been customised to support Born in Bradford – a
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Wales to digitise ambulance radio network

The Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust is to receive £55m from the Welsh Assembly government to invest in the O2
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Millennium delays creating financial risks, trust warns

A report by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust on delayed plans to deploy Cerner Millennium warns that current reporting
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Nuffield Hospitals invest in new Dell hardware

Nuffield Hospitals group has replaced its entire desktop infrastructure with a new set of 3,500 new desktop PCs provided by
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DTI says it will back UK telehealth firms

Industry and regions minister, Margaret Hodge has said that the Department of Trade and Industry wants to promote new telehealth
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Potential purchase of iSoft said to be nearing end-game

Newspaper reports today say that troubled software supplier iSoft is in talks with three final-stage bidders, naming US healthcare firms Cerner
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BMJ says it will have to charge for BestTreatments

The BMJ Group says the Department of Health’s withdrawl of funding from its award-winning website BestTreatments means it will now probably have to
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Knowledge is key

John Coulthard, Microsoft UK Healthcare Director, plots the links between NHS IT reform and patient involvement.
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